The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-09-03


dren as is enjoyed by the children of |
ent grossly unjust and unfair discrim-
nations against the colored schools
to be disgrace to the State.
ResoIued, That the unrest and dis
satisfaction existing among the wage.
earners of this country as manifested
by the various labor organizations
now agitating for redress are sign
of the times that should arrest the
attention and secure the earnest con-
sideration of every good citizen that
the labor of the country is entitled to
and shall have fair bearing, a
thorough examination of all their
claims, a full recognition of all their
rights, and prompt application of
remedies to all their wrongs"
The Republican party is for the
abolition of the enforced system of
tobacco inspection, which entails an
expense upon the treasury, is bur
densome to the taxpayers. and in its
inefticiency depreciates the value of
our products and Is reproach to the
State.
The Republican party of Maryland
demands the passage Of such laws,
State and national. as will effectuaftg
protect American labor, American
society and American institutions
from the influence of the psuper
and criminal classes of other countries
and from the competition of ctnyict
labor at home.
ReSolUed, That we are opposed to
the calling of a constitutional owen
ton at this time and we favor the
submission to the people of oil Ques-
tons of constitutional amendment in
the manner prescribed by the consti-
tuition, when urged by large portion
of our people.
The deep-Iaid schemes ofthe man.
ayers of the Democratic patty for the
destruction of the Chesapeake and
Ohio canal and its removal as a COM
petitOr with railroad monopoly.
which are now nearing their con-
summation, and will result in the
impoYerishment and ruin of large
number of our fellowcitizens, can
only be thwarted by the defeat of
their candidates for the Legislature,
and the best interests of the people of
the whole State demand that this
should be done, and that this great
work ofinternal improvement should
be perpetuated as waterway for the
transportation of the mineral and
other products of our western coun-
ties to tideWater.
We declare ourselves in favor of
the following specific measures of re-
form, viz: That more efficient laws
be passed against bribery and i'm
proper use of money in all forms of
election, as well as against lobbying,
and we pledge ourselves to enforce
the present laws upon the subject,
without respect to party; for an
equitable system of taxation, so as to
relieve the overwhelmed agricultural
interests of the State from their pres
ent depressed condition for revi-
sion of the revenue laws, so as to
enforce the prompt payment of pub
lie money into the treasury by col
lectors and other fiscal agents for a
curtailment of the expenses of legis-
lation and the correction of the
hitherto reckless and eXtravagant ex-
penditure of public money by the
General Assembly in printing, in
useless and unnecessary officers and
employees, and in appropriations out
of the State treasury as rewards for
partisan services by the execution OF
unnecessary commissions, codifica-
tions and contracts; for revision OF
the laws regulating the procedure in
our courts, lessening the expenses to
the taxpayers and TO litigants; for
laws preserving the sinking fund in
violate, as demanded by the consti-
tuition; for using the surplus in the
treasury to the eXtinguishment of
the State debt which falls due in 1888
as far as the same will go, instead of
expanding it in useless convention
and other unnecessary purposes, and
the refunding of the balance by offer
ing it in the financial markets of the
world so as to secure the honest rates
of interest and prevent it from inur-
ing to the benefit of present holders
to the prejudice of taxpayers.
ResolUed, That to secure fair cleo.
tions is the paramount issue before
the people Cf this State. We assert
that the following conditions, pre-.
scribed and made effective by law,
are absolutely essential. if elections
are to elect, viz: Precinct registration
by nOn-partisan boards-annual in
the city, quadrennial, with annual
revision, in the counties minority
representation, not only among the
officers of election and registration,
but in the boards which appoint those
officers complete publicity at every
stage of the registration and election
procedure, and glass ballot boxes,